The PonPon Japanese Team
Ritomo + Mandy Amamiya
Founders Of PonPon Japanese School
We are a Husband/Wife team that started PonPon Japanese School in 2020.
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Mandy has a B.Ed In Japanese and has spent many years in Japan including at immersive Japanese Schools and Meiji University in Tokyo.
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Ritomo is a Japanese native from Kamakura, Japan.
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Indy Nishimatsu
Japanese Teacher
Teacher Specializing in Beginner Learners
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Indy has a B.A. Specializing in East Asian studies and has lived in Japan for 5 years!
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Indy's first hand experience of learning Japanese makes her a great teacher! She understands the struggle and can share her tricks and tips of how she learned tricky grammar points!
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Winkie Tsui
Japanese Teacher
Teacher Specializing in Beginner Learners
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Winkie is an Alberta Certified teacher and has a B.Ed in Second Languages Education. She has been studying Japanese at the University of Calgary and in an immersive Japanese School in Kyoto for a number of years.
As a learner and teacher, Winkie believes that one of the best ways to learn languages is through personal hobbies and interests, like Japanese pop-culture, J-Pop/K-Pop, and cooking, which can make learning Japanese fun!
Winkie is currently accepting new students.
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Silva Baiton
Japanese Teacher
Teacher Specializing in Beginner-Intermediate Learners
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Silva is the newest addition to the PonPon Team!
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She has obtained the very elusive JLPT N1 Certificate!
(This is the highest possible level of Japanese fluency)
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Silva has a B.A. focusing on Asian Studies, and has lived in Japan for 3 years. She is also currently working on her Masters Degree in comparative literature, specializing in Japanese literature.
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Her impressive journey through Japanese makes her an invaluable resource full of great advice and insight for anyone who would like to follow in her footsteps!​
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